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Saturn formed beyond the snow line in the primordial solar nebula that made it possible for it to accrete a large mass. Disk instability and core accretion models have been proposed for Saturn?s ...

The Saturn System has been studied in detail by the Cassini-Huygens Mission. A major thrust of those investigations has been to understand how Saturn formed and evolved and to place Saturn in the ...

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With its striking rings and tilted axis, Saturn is the showiest planet in the solar system. Now, scientists say they have a new theory as to how the gas giant got its signature look. The planet’s ...

Oddly shaped gaps found in Saturn’s rings hint at the existence of long-sought “moonlets” and support the theory that the rings are the broken remains of an icy moon shattered long ago in a violent ...

Saturn's icy medium-size moons were born when a few much bigger satellites collided to form the ringed planet's huge moon Titan, a new study suggests. The Saturn system started out with a family of ...

Enceladus is Saturn's sixth-largest moon, a 500 km-wide icy world famed for its south polar geysers spewing water from a ...

The fourth in a line of groundbreaking NASA missions that could redefine how we understand life in the universe is set to launch in 2027. NASA's Dragonfly drone is headed for Saturn's largest moon, ...

The nine-engine variant can carry larger payloads and more closely matches the capabilities of SpaceX's largest rocket, ...